The video begins with a promotion for the strategy game Conflict of Nations, offering new players a special deal. It then transitions into a detailed recount of General Norman Schwarzkopf's actions during the Gulf War, highlighting the strategic movements and battles of various military divisions as they advance towards Kuwait City. The narrative covers the challenges faced by the troops, including weather conditions and enemy resistance, and concludes with the successful execution of complex military maneuvers aimed at defeating the Iraqi Republican Guard. The video ends by thanking Conflict of Nations for sponsoring the content.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. General Norman Schwarzkopf returned to the war room in Riyadh at 4am on Monday, February 25, 1991.
2. The 240 Abrams tanks of the 24th Infantry Division had marauded across the border and penetrated 80 miles into Iraq.
3. The French Dagger was preparing to launch its assault on the As Salman crossroads and airfield.
4. The 101st Airborne progressed in the construction of their forward operating base at Objective Cobra.
5. The US Marines and Arab forces in the east continued their progress towards Kuwait City.
6. Marine helicopters performed mock attack runs towards the coastline at Failaka Island.
7. The first action of Day Two took place on the western flank of Seven Corps.
8. The First and Third Armored Divisions maneuvered across the desert to catch up with the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment.
9. The Iraqi 806th Infantry Brigade was the first unit to be encountered by the US forces.
10. The display of firepower brought against the Iraqi brigade was short but violent.
11. The French Dagger encountered a company of Iraqi T-55 tanks and destroyed half of the 15 vehicles.
12. The Arab forces of Joint Forces Command East were moving up the coastal road in Kuwait.
13. The US First Marine Division Commander, Major General Mayat, was hosting the first marine division commander at the forward command post.
14. Iraqi artillery zeroed in on the First Marine Division forward command post.
15. The Iraqi force was brigade strength and was just a few hundred meters away from the marine encampment.
16. Seven Marine LAV armored personnel carriers and 40 infantrymen responded to the Iraqi attack.
17. Captain Ray is awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism.
18. The US First and Third Armored Divisions were making their way north towards Al-Bashir.
19. The British First Armored Division was continuing its transition through the safe lanes of the Saddam Line.
20. The 101st Airborne arrived at an area of land 27 miles southwest of Highway 8.
21. The plan was for the combined force to take the highway together.
22. Heavy wind and rain turned the humvee's route into a muddy bog.
23. The French assault on the airfield at Salman was ready to proceed at 2:30 pm.
24. A squadron of A-10s rolled in to drop bombs on the hangars and bunkers.
25. Gazelles moved in to attack vehicles and bunkers with anti-tank weapons.
26. The three ground assault teams breached the perimeter of the airfield.
27. Team One cleared the hangars on the west side of the airfield.
28. Team Two cleared the hangars on the east side and then the tanks of Team 3 smashed through the fence in the center.
29. The Dagger found the airfield abandoned and began to clear the area of anti-personnel cluster bomblets.
30. The Black Hawks of the 101st dropped their infantry into the muddy bog a mile south of Highway 8.
31. The mud was almost knee-deep and oozed into the infantryman's boots.
32. The artillery and humvees dropped by the Chinooks earlier were delayed.
33. The going was so hard that the second lift of infantryman was cancelled until the following day.
34. The 101st set up roadblocks in two places along Highway 8 and met little resistance.
35. Their first catch was a convoy of four trucks.
36. American machine gun fire ripped into the lead vehicle and the convoy halted.
37. The drivers ran away into the night with a shipment of onions.
38. The British First Armored Division was through the breach and clearing pockets of resistance northeast.
39. The Second Armored Cavalry Regiment probed east into the night towards Kuwait.
40. They encountered and skirmished with the Iraqi 50th and 37th Armored Brigades.
41. Frank Plan 7 was in motion, and the echelon of divisions made a complex and dangerous wheeling right turn.
42. The maneuver was hazardous because excitable and enthusiastic tank crew might mistake vehicles from other friendly divisions around them for enemy units.